"Socialists try to convince you to surrender your freedom, whereas Communists forcefully seize your freedom".
Posted on 04/09/2016 2:50:23 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
At the very least, it adds the cost an extra layer of bureaucracy to every transaction that can be handled by two private parties between themselves.
Socialism is suicide
Communism is murder
You are dead either way
As for Socialism versus Communism, the difference is that Socialists try to convince you to surrender your freedom, whereas Communists forcefully seize your freedom.
No. Socialists use government to erode your freedom slower than communism does, so as not to alarm you. The end point is the same.
“Socialism is suicide
Communism is murder
You are dead either way.”
I think they are both murderous.
One is just faster than the other.
I’d rather be dead than red.
Exactly. Socialism is an evil soul-sucking sick putrid festering wound of an ideology, dressed up in free crap for lazy, undiscerning, mob-ruled gimmedats at the expense of what remains of the middle class. For God’s sake, wake up, America.
"Socialists try to convince you to surrender your freedom, whereas Communists forcefully seize your freedom".
I know some young “useful idiot” new college graduates that think Bernie is great. They don’t realize that they are too delicate to actually survive the brutality of such a system.
Fascism is socialism via rules and regulations. All the rules and govt gets none of the blame.
Here’s my reason why:
Because it’s never worked anywhere
What more arguments does one need?
Yep.
Communism vs socialism. They’re akin to getting murdered or committing suicide at gun point. Respectively.
Hayak’s book “The Road to Serfdom” clearly and eloquently describes how socialism means an end to personal liberty. Those who point to countries like Sweden or Denmark as models of progressive socialism, fail to recognize how individual choices are compromised in exchange for government “freebies”. Free college means that your choice of college or even classes is dictated by the government. Free healthcare means a government bureaucracy will dictate your doctor and even whether or not you will be treated. Green energy may mean you won’t have your own car or be able to afford the gas to go anywhere.
Socialism is a narcotic, a pyramid scheme that promises a great return for very little investment.
The problem with socialism, and the reason it will never work is
because it doesn’t take into consideration human nature.
There is always people who want more than everyone else,
think they are smarter than everyone else and think that
everyone should do as they say and not as they do.
Rush Limbaugh’s story about Thanksgiving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esg-UgAED1o
They can’t even handle Trump 2016 written in chalk on the sidewalk!!
Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under 'communism' and 'fascism'. As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939,'the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of unfreedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.’No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom. - F A Hayek,The Road to Serfdom (Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945)
Ever notice that the solution to every problem the liberals
say we have is always higher cost, higher taxes and less
freedom? Always. The only time any freedom is granted it’s
always to some minority group or another. Affirmative action,
homo marriage, sanctuary cities, etc....
Don’t forget, the New World Order will be a socialist world
order and before it can happen, America has to fall. We are
the only thing standing in it’s way. That’s what the past
four presidents were all about, making us more palatable to the
one world government.
All of these believers desperately need to spend a week in the socialist paradise of Venezuela.
By following the spontaneously generated moral traditions underlying the competitive market order (traditions that do not satisfy the canons or norms of rationality embraced by most socialists), we generate and garner greater knowledge and wealth than could ever be obtained or utilized in a centrally-directed economy.
She sounds like a smart lady.
I’m vehemently opposed to anything that runs against God’s Word and freedom.
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